COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONAt Left Coast Brewing Co. we pride ourselves on being one of the pioneers of Double IPA style craft beer. This hop monster uses Premium American 2Ė Row and a touch of light crystal malt to create a solid malt foundation. Five different Hop Varieties are used in the Hop Juice. It spends two weeks dry hopping in fermenter contributing to its great hop aroma. Starts out sweet and finishes with the crisp bitterness of a Double IPA. This drinkable blend will have you HOPPING till nights end.

Draft sample. Hazy orange in colour with medium carbonation. Aromas are of caramel, mandarin oranges, and latex paint. Flavors are more of the same sweet caramel, sweet orange and paint, along with notes or white pepper, booze, and grassy bitterness. Something is not quite right here.

Like sticking your nose deep into flower. That floral sweetness grabs you early. It has same effect on tongue before the drier finish. A sipper. 9.7%. 2.72std drks. 355ml.
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I was hoping to have my head blown off by this: 5 different hops used, and transfer from sweetness to bitter on the finish, a whopping alcohol content, but all in all... I'm not fussed. It's a good beer, definitely well made, but its just lacking a certain something. I'm going to have to try the straight IPA and see if they hit there mark.

Bottle. Pours a somewhat hazy amber color with a moderate off-white head on there. Nose is sticky and quite resiny, making this a DIPA that you really have to like the hops on. Taste is quite bitter and just a little bit harsh on the palate, so itís not all that accessible. OK.

On tap at The Local Taphouse. Pours clear amber. The aroma clearly states "yup, Iím an IIPA" with its flowery sweetness. The taste feels challenged by that and punches you with a nice combo of sweet bitterness. Punchy and strong, nothing to hide. Almost too much.

Aromas are hops, honey and malt. A nice balance with some complexity.
Color is a fairly deep Amber with a modest off-white head.
Taste is a combination of a fairly pronounced sweetness and a good hop bitterness.
Full bodied with a long pleasant bitter finish.
Overall a very good beer. Some complexity with sweet and bitter components and a real ale-like character.

Something of a caramel malt bomb with some extra bitter piney hops as an afterthought. I suspect that this bottle is less than fresh, but hey you want me to favorably rate fresh stuff? Then date yer damn bottles.

Draft at Taps Beer Bar, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a crystal clear medium amber with a frothy white head and some broken lace. The aroma is big woody citrus fruit hop. The flavour is strong bitter with a resin woody alcoholic hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation.

Wayyyyyyy more malt then what I was expecting. Like the bottle I got was just dominated by a brown sugar sweet malt. So much sweetness and I got hardly any hoppiness which is what I was looking forward to. I am actually kind of disappointed I was thinking this was going to be a super hop forward beer and unless I got a bad bottle itís just sweet maltiness and hardly any hops.

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